Off Ned goes to the hoosegow, where he becomes a popular prisoner and gets released early, then meanders back to the organic farm he shared with his girlfriend, the loathsome Janet a great Kathryn Hahn, on the assumption that life, as he knew it, will resume.

And a newspaper report - New York Times - detailed a meeting we wish we'd been invited to, in which MTV suits regaled themselves with speculation as to which of them could wind up in the hoosegow if future episodes aired as delivered to MTV by the producers -- which is sure to boost MTV's coveted 12-24 year old guy numbers by - oh wait, 12-24-year-old guys don't read newspapers.

Last Thursday's most recent episode, in which poor Snooki finally got released from the hoosegow into which she'd been tossed on a disorderly conduct rap after getting hammered in public, clocked nearly 9 million viewers.